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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Double misery

We probably spent about five hours yesterday listening to portions of the Jays doubleheader against the Rangers. And somewhere in the middle innings of the second game, we tore the ear buds out, turned off the radio and took the rest of the night off.

We needed to find something more cheerful to do with our life, so we flipped through the PVR and found an episode of Intervention to watch, because observing teenagers destroy their lives before the cameras is really a pick-me-up after that much time spent with the Blue Jays.

We keep telling ourselves that we're going to miss baseball in a month's time, and that we're going to be sad once the season is over. But at this rate, with 75 wins turning into a lofty target, we just want to get to the off season and see this organization make some sort of effort to right itself.

They just need to sort everything out: Sort out the presidency. Sort out the front office. Sort out the on-field staff. Sort out the roster.

Sort all that out, and give us a reason to believe that 2010 isn't going to be a season-long march towards mediocrity.

A second thought or two on September callupsIt might have been a bit unfair to rip on yesterday's callups in the manner that we did. We didn't realize that the minor league season had another full week to it, so it is possible that the Jays will eventually find room for a few more bodies on the active roster after this weekend.

Let's hope so.

Also, we should note that we're happy to see Dirk Hayhurst get the call. He pitched well while he was here, even though Cito generally used him only sporadically and in blowouts. We'd like to see him back as a bullpen arm next year. Our frustration comes from seeing the return of the marginal pitching stylings of Brian Wolfe, and the insistence that this team has in believing in magical voodoo of Joe Inglett.

We've grown incredibly tired of Inglett and his spunkiness, and we don't believe as many do that he's some sort of José Oquendo Utility Dude. In our view, Inglett's a second baseman and nothing else. He is more than willing to grab a mitt and play anywhere on the diamond, but he's not suited to play anywhere but second. And we've already got a perfectly capable second sacker.

Nobody's asking me, but you know what I think about the Rolen situation?

I think it sucks to hear that he may have dissed being a Blue Jay/Toronto/Canada/whatever - I mean, we all have some pride, right?....but we were happy when he was doing the same thing to St. Louis, weren't we?

Maybe it's just Scott Rolen being Scott Rolen. I dunno. I usually get worked up about these things, but right now I'm just....meh.

I'm more interested in the Rotoworld sidebar that says Cito has aleady annointed the 2010 rotation as Doc/replacement, Marcum, Romero, Cecil, RZep, with a possible Litsch sighting mid-season.

Thanks for coming out, Scott Richmond. And no mention of the Ghost of Dustin McGowan. That hurts, man.

Cito's proclamation is particularly stunning coming on the heals of his last proclamation that he wouldn't be managing next year.

As for Inglett, he's capable of not making outs 35% of the time in this league, which is suitable to me if some manager other than Cito wants to take some leveraged at-bats away from E5 or [insert crappy catcher here].

Wilner's got a helluva lot more access than we do. Rolen could have sucked it up for three fucking months and walked out of town. I think it's bullshit. But, whatever, we've got E5 now. Let's focus on him.

And I saw that rotation as well. I thought the same thing about McGowan. He really is the forgotten man. Poor guy. Poor us. Fuck.

Fuck off about shitting on Inglett. He wasn't 100 percent healthy during his first call-up when he was getting over a hamstring injury and he had an 8 game hitting streak when he was demoted last month.

Jesus, Inglett's not the biggest fucking problem on this club. Fuck sakes, do you have cute puppies too?